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Palabras de Elaine
Elaine Liang
2020-01-20
A Manosalvas Fonte Christmas tradition where each family unit prepares a skit with the funniest skit winning a grand prize. Our family were characters from the Mexican comedy “El Chavo del Ocho”, and I was the main character, Chavo. We won the grand prize- a baby cow. ¡Qué chavo! Context: For my Christmas dinner with...
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Thoughts of ‘the Adventurer’
Joshua Gervais
2020-01-15
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the concept of “adventuring”. If I’m being honest, this has been something I’ve borderline obsessed over since before I even arrived here in Senegal. So much so, in fact, that for a Global Citizen Year talent show, I wrote AND performed a poem I entitled “To Be An Adventurer”. The...
Read MoreThe Diaspora
Buddy Bomze
2020-01-14
When I was in Hebrew school, my friends taught me a song about how you could always find Jews wherever you were. I have since forgotten how it goes, but the positive notion of identifying as a diaspora Jew stuck with me. As I traveled to the JCC in Krakow, Poland and to Israel where...
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Graham Markert
2020-01-14
11/1/2020 “E aí?!” The howl came from a man 12 feet above me, delicately balanced on the Black Pearl’s center mast. One hand clutching the climbing net, the other a microphone, Captain Jack Sparrow let out his most ferocious cry yet. “QUEM GOSTA DE BARULHO!?!!?” The ship’s deck doubled as a dance floor as more...
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A Week in the Galapagos
Amelia Joss
2020-01-12
A quick photo summary of our trip to the Galapagos Islands! Fam selfie in the Guayaquil airport on our way to San Cristobal One of my favorite parts of San Cristobal was the overwhelming presence of sea lions. We kept finding them in the funniest spots—chairs, porches, sidewalks. The view from the balcony of our...
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A visit to Gorée Island and flashbacks from Palestine.
Abdallah Salha
2020-01-11
“We all have a lot of identities that we carry around with us. One of these identities is the victim identity, which takes up a lot more thought. When it takes up a lot of space, we forget about the other identities that we have and the other ways that we can connect with other...
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Fashion in Senegal
Kali Regenvanu
2020-01-09
Hello hello hello dear friends! It has been four months since I arrived here in Thies, Senegal and I have to say one of the things I have loved and admired the most since being here (apart from my amazing host family and friends here) is the fashion. Creativity is abundant here in Thies, and...
Read MoreOn Being A Toubab
Sam Metzger
2020-01-04
Every day, and some days more than others, I am called a Toubab. “Toubab” is the Wolof word for “foreigner”, and due to my white skin, I am by default a toubab. One of the first things I learned how to say in Wolof was that I am not a toubab, and my name is...
Read More10 Lessons from travelling in India
Celia Morton
2020-01-04
Greetings from the foot of the Himalayas in Macleod Ganj You can manage an unplanned trip without internet, it’s scary but you just have to trust people. India is a country of contrasts, unpredictability and intensity. It’s okay to take it all in small doses. Let yourself rest. Being a white tourist will make people...
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